Improvement in stencil-plates



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Stencil-Plates. v N0.]52,786 Patentedluly 7,1874.

Vitne S Inventor;

THE GRAPHIC OO PHOYO-LITH.39&4I PARK PLACER.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE M. WOOD, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN STENCIL-PLATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,786, dated July 7, 1874; application filed May 2, 1874. I

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. W001), of San Francisco city and county, State of California, have invented a Gage and Guide for StenciLPlates; and I do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are suflicient to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertains to make and use my said invention without further invention or experiment.

My invention relates to improvements in stencil or marking plates; and it consists in a certain arrangement of guides and gages, whereby I am enabled to make the separate letters exactly upon the same line, and also make the spaces between the letters of the proper width.

Referring to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanation of myinvention, Figure 1 is a view of my stenciLpIate.

A is the portion of the thin metallic plate through which the letter is out, as shown. At the left of the letter I turn up a flange, C, and the edge of this flange serves as a guide, by which I amenabled to space the letters exactly. I

In order to place the letters all upon a line,

a notch, E, is cut into the plate at the right side and on a line with the bottom of the let-i ter. At the opposite or left side the portion of the plate Gr below the letter, and from which the flange C was cut or separated, is allowed to extend out in a line with the notch E. This gives me a guide for the line, and by this means I am enabled to stencil letters in an accurate and regular manner.

Having thus described my invention, what I GEORGE M. WOOD. [L s.)

\Vitnesses:

JNo. L. Rooms, 0. M. RICHARDSON. 

